Thomas is learning to read! He can read short books and basic sentences. This is so fun for me. He also has homework this year. All of the international schools assign it to his age. I dont know if this some expat overachiever phenomenon, or if all kindergartners everywhere do homework now. Since my AUC class was postponed, (alas), I'm now starting to take Arabic. Sometimes we do our homework together-- copying out letters and vocabulary side by side.
Here are some words I can write in arabic: (right to left)
طفل، باب, مکتب , بیت ، کتاب
(child, gate, desk, house, book
Here are some words Thomas can write in English:
cat, fat, bat, hat, jam, ran, fan, man, pan, pig, wig, the, you, bad, mad, sad, dad, pin, win, tin, Kipper, Mum
10 comments:
Kipper? As in "Win one for the Kipper"? Yom Kipper? Yum, Kipper?
An excellent word, anyway.
WB
A really impressive Mother Son Team.
Homework - A+
5 words for Mom (how did you type that in Arabic ?)
and 22 for Thomas
but whose counting
I meant "who's"
ratinknuthrWhat a hard working duo! Great pix.
Now we can write to Thomas too. Nancy
Excuse my Dutch! those letters were my attempts at word verification. Oops. Nancy
What a hard working duo! Great pix.
Now we can write to Thomas too. Nancy
Kipper is the name of a little boy character in the reading series they assign. T doesn't actually write the name much, but he does read it. I like it because its so British in the "yum, kipper" sense.
It took me about an hour to figure out how to write those words in arabic. There's a transliteration button on the compose page, at least if one is writing from Egypt. (Note- transliteration, not translation.)
Yo, what up bro? Why you fronting me like that?
I LOVE this!
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